4 Lessons I’ve learned after launching My Engineering Company

Starting a new thing and change some-thing you used to do is not an easy decision. On the other hand, the idea that you have your own business and control your life from A to Z is something really attractive.

When I decided to start my own business and build an engineering company, I thought hundred of times about what will happen. Future is the most obsessive issue in human being life.

Usually, people will tell you about beautiful stories and all the happiness that succeed people have. They will advise you to move on and do it. But nobody will tell you about disappointments or why he/she is still an employee for somebody else!

So, I did it and launched it..

Nabtaker is not my first project, but it is my first real business project. I’m a Me-chnical Engineer originally, I spent more than 10 years as an employee.

So..!

Based on that experience I decided to start my own business and go further.

My idea was to build an engineering consultancy company. It will help industry field to ensure that their engineering products/services work properly and cost efficiently by using different types of simulation.

Targeting business’s field is not an easy as customer’s field. The field is narrow, most of companies work based on a deep system of connections and procedures, which are not easy to be changed and replaced by a “start-up compnay”..!

In any way, I started, and here are the main 4 lessons I learned in the first 6 months.

Lesson#1: Be Strong In Your Craft

May your business idea is good and solid enough to be applied in the market. But believe me, if you are not strong and specialist in your field; you will not be able to success.

In my case, I had to be specialist in CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) tool.

So, once I trigger my idea off, I did my best to build my technical abilities in this field. I reviewed Fluid Mechanics Fundamental stuff, took a Technical Course with SimScale Academy , got tens of project tutorials and did a lot of practicing.

You have to stick with this mentality and keep enhance your skills as long as you are in the way.

Lesson #2: Be Flexible

Having a business idea is something, and being able to apply it is something else.

Once you start applying it in the market, there is no real clue that it will be succeed. Your idea is not a sacred thing and untouchable. It can be reframed and sometimes totally changed.

Now, for sure 6 months -in my case- may are not the period you can judge that your business idea has to be reframed. But, at least you have to be flexible to adjust it, when it is required.

Lesson#3: Relationships and Relationships and Relationships

It is a formal and common basic principle in entrepreneurship and business field. But let me reframe it to you again. Most of the markets seem overwhelmed, but may be they are actually not. May you will say I have a creative idea or a good product or a brilliant service.

Ok..!

It seems good, but not good enugh to let you penetrate the wall of formal systems in the market. What will; is a relation with a good player.

This relationship will introduce you to clients those you can not even meet. It will come over the gap of your company’s poor profile and give you the opportunity to join the game.

Lesson#4: Be Patient & Persistent.

I read a lot about startups and the diffic-ulties that I’m going to face, strategies and tactics I should follow.

But let me tell you something, all these were totally different of what I’ve faced and still facing.

In your way to build a company and almost in every single stage, there will be all kind of blocks in your way that will let you think to stop and go away.

What will let you stick in, is a kind of ability that had been built through the trip. It will be built from accumulative efforts through days and nights you spend. Persistence is the secret. It is like a fuel, If you don’t have it, you will not survive at all.

Your persistence will be supported by two things; experience and knowledge. Both you will get through the journey.

Finally, I cannot say I succeed or failed at this moment. But I will try to keep you always up to date. Meanwhile, I will do my best, to be persistent and patient as much as I can.